Clarion 1968-05-16 Vol 42 No 26

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BETHEL COLLEGE
Bethelites listen to entertainment at Junior-Senior
banquet.
the CLARION
Vol e XLII—No. 26 Bethel College, St. Paul, Minn. Thursday, May 16, 1968
Festival choir presents Bach motet,
Vivaldi cantata tonight in fieldhouse
Bethel's CHOICE '68 vote follows
similar pattern to n•tional results
In action stemming from stu-dent
initiative, the Educational
Policies Committee approved in a
meeting last week, May 8, a one
credit course in The Negro in
American Culture for the fall se-mester
of 1968.
The course will be interdiscipli-nary.
It will be organized under
the supervision of the Dean who
will work with the academic corn-mittee
of the Student Senate in
enlisting participation from faculty
of various departments.
Student support was the key fac-tor
in the decision of the commit-tee
to approve the course. The
proposal had been discussed in
recent issues of the Clarion, and a
petition carrying the names of over
60 students interested in such a
course was submitted to the Edu-cational
Policies Committee.
Dr. Dalphy Fagerstrom, chairman
of the committee, said the action
The Bethel College community
will have an opportunity to hear,
live and in concert, Amanda and
John Ylvisaker on May 18 in the
Bethel fieldhouse. A Lutheran lay-man,
Ylvisaker attempts to mold
together the so-often conflicting
Musicians give
senior program
Joyce Miller and Dennis Rock-ford
will present their joint senior
recital at Elim Baptist Church in
Minneapolis, Monday night, M a y
20.
Joyce is a music education major
with her applied performance em-phasis
in voice. She will be per-forming
compositions by Buxte-hude,
Brahms, Massenet, and Han-del
as well as some contemporary
works by Wood, Murray, Perry and
Weaver.
Her accompanist is Karen Hale.
Also assisting her will be Harriet
Norgren and Gail Klemetti, flutists.
Dennis, also in music education,
will perform selections by Bach,
Beethoven, and Kabalevsky. Three
of his own hymn arrangements are
included in the program.
The recital begins at 8:00 p.m.,
and an informal reception will be
held afterwards.
"establishes a precedent" for add-ing
courses of an experimental na-ture,
dealing with current issues,
to the current curriculum at short
notice.
Dr. Fagerstrom said the commit-tee
viewed the course as "a learn-ing
experience for both students
and faculty." In participating in
this kind of experience, faculty
members may develop material
which they will then go back and
incorporate into their regular cour-ses
of instruction.
"This is viewed more as a one-time
shot than a long range pro-gram,"
Dr. Fagerstrom said, al-though
indicating that an evalua-tion
of The Negro in American
Culture course would be helpful
in determining the merit of con
tinuing the course, or of adding
similar short term courses relevent
to contemporary problems.
While the addition of such cours-worlds
of serious music and popu-lar
culture.
Sponsored by the Senior Class,
the concert will provide an unique
combination of the sacred and the
secular in musical form. Needless
to say, the Ylvisaker sound has
created some stir in the tradition-al
church, but it is an attempt to
give the institutional church a re-newed
awareness of its environ-ment
and its ability to communi-cate
with this environment.
A feature article in the Dallas
Morning News called their pro-gram
"the greatest." The Saginaw
News comments, "the Ylvisakers'
message, told in lyrics set to the
tunes of popular folk and rock mu-sic,
deals with the problem of life
in the city and of the beauty in
personal relationships. Nobody
sleeps through their sermons."
The feature writer of another
newspaper had this to say, "The
Ylvisakers' music is in direct con-trast
to our separationist hang-up.
A comfortable but unsettling union
of the secular and the sacred, it
uses contemporary sounds to pre-sent
religious motives. The result
is a strangely moving experience."
Controversial is the word for this
uncompromising attempt to reach
today's world with the Christian
faith, and sponsors hope it will stir
discussion. In Mr. Ylvisaker's
words: "Listen, react, and ask your-self
the question; is the church
finally ready for a musical revolu-tion?"
Senator Eugene J. McCarthy won
CHOICE '68 according to prelimi-nary
national results based on 1,-
207 schools. Richard Nixon re-ceived
the most votes from Bethel
while McCarthy ranked second
with 31.3% of the students voting.
Senator McCarthy topped nation-al
results with 285,898 first-place
votes. Senator Robert Kennedy
placed second with 213,832 votes.
Richard Nixon captured third place
with 197,167.
From the 1,207 schools that sub-mitted
results, 1,072,000 students
expressed presidential preferences
and opinions on key issues. Forty-four
percent of these students will
be of voting age in November.
es is good as a means of empha-sizing
important areas presently
slighted by the curriculum, Dr. Fa-gerstrom
felt that, pedagogically,
the material disucssed in this type
of course would best be absorbed
into existing courses.
The Festival Choir of Bethel Col-lege
will present Bach's Jesu,
Priceless Treasure and Vivaldi's
Gloria tonight at 8:30 in the field-house.
The 150 member choir and
a 20 piece orchestra composed of
professional musicians of the Twin
Cities with Frederick Sewell as
concert master will be under the
direction of Dr. Robert Berglund.
Jesu, Priceless Treasure, one of
J. S. Bach's most famous works,
is an acapella motet with instru-ments
doubling voice parts. Though
sung with an English translation,
the text is German. The title, Jesu,
Meine Freude literally means, "Je-sus,
My Joy," an emotion aptly
The Players Club of the Minne-sota
Theatre Company, in its sec-ond
year of operation, has an-nounced
a new and expanded pro-gram
for its 1968 Guthrie season.
The '68 program offers its mem-bers
three evenings of discussions
on theatre, a production at The
Other Place, plus a booklet of criti-cal
material on the Guthrie '68
plays and playwrights.
Membership in the Players Club
costs $2.00, and only subscribers to
the Guthrie '68 season may join.
The club is designed primarily for
students, but for the first time,
all subscribers are eligible.
The three evenings of discussion,
one more than in the past Players
Here is the distribution of Beth-el's
votes: Nixon received 39.4%;
McCarthy took 33.11%; Rockefel-ler
drew 7.95%; Hatfield picked
up 5.3%; Kennedy received 3.31%;
Percy drew 2.98% ; L.B.J. mustered
2.65%; Wallace and Lindsay each
picked up .99%; and Halstead,
King and Reagan each had .33%.
Stassen received no voted from
Bethel students. 2.32% of the Beth-el
vote went to write-in candidates.
The write-ins have not yet been
tabulated.
Rockefeller received the highest
number of second place votes in
Bethel's voting. He was followed
in this category by Nixon and
then McCarthy. Kennedy drew the
greatest - number of third place
votes. He was followed by Hatfield,
Rockefeller, Percy, and McCarthy,
in that order.
Sixty-five percent of Bethel stu-dents
favored either withdrawal
or reduction of American forces
in Vietnam. Permanent cessation
of the bombing was favored by
27.3%. Another 29.61% favored
portrayed by the grandeur of the
work.
Gloria by Antonio Vivaldi, is an
18th century Baroque cantata which
has been very popular in recent
times. This particular setting of
"Gloria in excelsis," of which there
are two, received its first modern
performance as late as 29 years
ago.
Since then, the great vitality
and rhythmic excitement of the
work has captured the hearts and
imaginations of performers and
listeners alike. It is scored for solo
voices, mixed chorus and orchestra,
including strings, oboe, continuo,
trumpet, and organ. Carol Stuart
Club season in St. Paul, will all
take place in the fall at The Other
Place Theatre. Topics for discus-sion
are: "Directing A Play," "De-signing
For The Theatre," and
"Theatre. In The 1970's."
Tentative speakers for these
events are director, TYRONE
GUTHRIE, world respected design-er,
TANYA MOISEIWIT'SCH, and
the Company's new Literary Man-ager,
JOHN LAHR, respectively.
The production at The Other Place
will be performed by members of
the Minnesota Theatre Company
in a play to be annouced later.
Membership is limited to 350,
and can be purchased at the Guth-rie
Box Office (377-2224).
temporary suspension of the bomb-ing.
Bethel students gave job train-ing
the highest priority for govern-ment
spending with 43.33%. Edu-cation
followed with 36.33%. Riot
control, housing, and income subsi-dy
all received limited support.
In the national results Senator
Eugene J. McCarthy led in ballot
metions with 623,360. Kennedy was
second, Rockefeller placed third,
and Nixon fourth. Humphrey re-ceived
about 60% of the write-in
vote.
On the issue of military action
in Vietnam, approximately 62%
favored some type of reduction. On
the bombing, 29% chose perma-nent
cessation and 29% favored
temporary suspension.
In connection with the urban
crisis, 40% recommended that ed-ucation
receive highest priority in
government spending. Job training
drew support from 39%. Riot con-trol
was favored by 12% of the
voters. Housing received 6% and
income subsidy picked up 3%.
and Margaret Berglund will per-form
the soprano and alto solos
respectively.
This year, the Festival Choir is
enjoying one of its best spring
rehearsal seasons. The stated goal
of the group is to establish its own
reputation as an outstanding group
on campus and in the Twin Cities,
capable of performing major ora-torios,
masses, and other full di-mensional
works.
The choir is governed by a new-ly
formed student council com-posed
of members from the Male
Chorus, Women's Choir, and Col-lege
Choir. This year's representa-tives
are Ruth Phillips, Cindy Sim-kins,
Tom Wilkinson,Jeff Loomis
and John P. Larson, with Dan
Wickman serving as chairman.
This council, plus the choir and
the members of the music faculty,
view the Festival Choir as the 'be-ginnings
of big, new, and exciting
musical experiences for the Bethel
community.'
ebetpet ,flotts
May 20-22
Monday: Dr. Dan Baumann
Tuesday: Honors Convocation
Wednesday: Dr. Max James will
present this summer's student
missionaries
The annual Honors Convocation
is scheduled for the regular Chapel
Service time on Tuesday. Over 185
student awards will be presented.
Lutheran layman slates concert,
combines sacred, secular music
EPC approves course addition
Guthrie announces expanded club
Dr. Fagerstrom
Faculty articles
discuss future
This week's issue of the Clarion
opens a discussion on the future
of the Christian liberal arts college
which will feature the contribu-tions
of several faculty members.
The discussion will be continued
in next week's issue, the final edi-tion
of the 1967-68 school year.
Dr. Dalphy Fagerstrom, profes-sor
of history and college librarian,
writes on this topic this week. His
article is printed below.
lege can rightfully choose a pro-gram
designed mainly to serve and
preserve its youth. Staff who com-mit
themselves to this work can
contribute joyously to it and take
satisfaction in a meaningful de-nominational
role. Their work is
with a select group in the critical
post-high school years and there-fore
is a strategic work.
But the rapidly diminishing role
of this kind of program in the
world of higher education should
be recognized. Such an institution
today may be in a position ana-lagous
to that of the Bible Insti-tute
a generation ago, soon to be
largely superceded by the course
of events.
There is another and more exci-ting
role for the Christian college.
It is in the strategic potential for
a progressive and high quality lib-eral
arts program under evangeli-cal
sponsorship and addressed to
society at large. Such a program
could truly be described as a mis-sion
in higher education. I doubt
that any college with a conserva-tive
theological orientation now
mounts such a program.
Some have adopted current fads
in calendar and credit structure
and make great (and 'specious)
claims for superior objectivity on
grounds that they are open to
study of religious assumptions
while secular institutions are not.
But the evidence of creative and
authentically academic programs
under evangelical sponsorship is
slim.
There are no doubt many rea-sons
for failure to develop progres-sive
missions in higher education,
but since teaching is central to the
whole enterprise, perhaps the cen-tral
problem relates to conserva-tive
anxieties and confusion about
teaching. There is confusion, for
example, about the objective of
"integrating faith and knowledge."
Most Christian educators profess
to want to (bring Christian truth
integrally into the disciplines they
study and teach, but few.describe
in practical terms how this is ac-complished
(i.e., beyond some gen-eral
assertions such as "Christ is
the source of all truth' or "there
is an ultimate unity in knowledge").
Some, in a search for safety, re-sort
to dogmatic pronouncements.
Some insist that the Christian col-lege
instructor must utter proposi-tions
he would not utter in a secu-lar
institution or that there is no
significant difference between the
two types of institution.
The fundamental issue, I suggest,
in the problem of integrating faith
and knowledge in college instruc-tion
is in techniques of communi-cation,
and in the educational in-stitution
this is a problem of peda-gogy.
Evangelically sponsored col-leges
generally do not admit the
wide lattitude in pedagogical ap-proaches
that must be permitted
and encouraged if a creative and
comprehensive learning experience
is to be possible.
Assuming that faculty have cho-sen
to live and work within the
theological framework of the spon-sors,
the instructors need not and
should not be exhorted to formu-late
Christian truth in the class-room
in any specific way. The in-structors
need only be encouraged
to teach as conscientious Christian
scholars.
cont'd on page 3
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the CLARION Thursday, May 16, 1968
The "Open Letter of Concern," written by Bethel Semi-nary
students after Martin Luther King's assassination, has trig-gered
an avalanche of reaction, both pro and con, in Baptist
General Conference circles. Some have commended the semi-narians
for their concern while others have questioned the
practical value of a statement composed within the "ivory
towers" of the Arden Hills campus.
It would be most naive to assume that "the letter of
concern" is responsible for anything more than free expres-sion
of existing questions and suspicions. Conference members
have long looked at various trends among "the younger gen-eration"
with distrust.
First, they feel that today's youth are either apathetic
or otherwise championing peripheral issues (e.g., civil rights,
Viet Nam war) and have lost sight of their primary purpose
as Christians—evangelizing the world.
Secondly, they wonder whether seminaries and church-related
colleges, i.e. Bethel, are at fault for the comparative
failure of the church to evangelize the world.
These ideas are prevalent in the conference today. Pick up
the May 6 edition of the Standard. Listen to conversations
in conference churches. Again and again you find these senti-ments
expressed.
To many college students this is both irritating and
perplexing. First, they do not believe that Bethel students,
seminary or college, are victims of misdirected energies, and
intend to make social work their gospel, losing sight of their
greater task. Secondly, they wonder how the older generations
can talk of the "failure to evangelize the world," and then point
their fingers anywhere but at themselves.
Why had little advance been made toward world evan-gelism
in the 1920's? Many of the strongest critics of today's
youth were in full bloom then. Why was little progress made
in the 1930's? Why was little accomplished during the forties
or fifties?
These questions cannot be answered by pointing at the
younger generation. Nor can they be answered by pointing at
the shortcomings of seminaries or church-related colleges. Even
the conference adults who frown at them now never really
thought these colleges and seminaries were so bad when they
were attending them.
Undoubtedly, there are young people today who get carried
away to the point of thinking that fighting social or political
ills is the central work of the Christian. This is wrong. Yet
this is not worse than the large number of adults who evidence
little involvement in either the societal or spiritual realm.
We should not forget that Christ, according to the gospels,
performed a three-fold ministry on earth: teaching, preaching,
and healing. He was concerned for the total man, yet he put
material things in a perspective which conference TV's and 40
inch waists have never seen, despite their burning concern for
the souls of the lost.
Perhaps our concern for saving souls is a crutch we often
use to avoid the dirty work of societal involvement. But as
long as we use this as a crutch, we are really only concerned
about ourselves, and not others.
Perhaps we also need to re-examine the prevalent "easy
chair" conception of evangelism that seems to dangerously em-phasize
things that don't quite square with accurate biblical
exegesus. And here it is not the younger generation which
has the wrong priority of values.
First, the idea of the "invitation" seems to be right in the
adult's easy chair style: come to church, come to the altar, as
the evangelist begs, cajoles, or even threatens until the audi-
Critics, defenders clash on issue,
debatevalidityofsectarianschool
In recent years the idea of the
church-related or sectarian college
has come under severe attack, of-ten
from within the ranks of the
Christian community itself. While
there has been much controversy,
the issue remains wide open; the
sectarian college has not been com-pletely
vidicated by its defenders
nor has it been completely devas-tated
by its opponents.
The defenders of the idea claim
that at the intellectual level Chris-tianity
manifests itself in a dis-tinctive,
comprehensive world -
view that effects the interpreta-tion
of all aspects of knowledge.
They claim that the task of the
sectarian college is to develop this
world-view in every facet of the
curriculum and to "integrate faith
and knowledge."
The proponents of the idea also
claim that the Christian college is
the only place where the dedica-ted
student can be exposed to a
Christian interpretation of every
discipline, and where each course
ence responds. Christ taught in the synagogues, but he also
went out to the people to whom the "righteous" would not
lower themselves.
Christ was not the author of the emotional appeal, He did
not try to scare people into heaven, and the Bible does not
tell us about any cases where He used our modern type of
invitation when speaking to the masses. Modern invitations
are too often aimed at numbers, and even more often provide
a welcome chance for Christians to sidestep personal involve-ment.
It seems that Christ was more concerned about corn-mittment
than numbers. We need to follow this wise example
rather than devise "improvements" which ultimately reflect the
foolishness of man.
Those who claim to be so more firmly grounded in God's
Word than are the youth now corning from our colleges and
seminaries are blatantly guilty of ignoring another scriptural
truth each time they present a "persuasive" invitation. This
is simply that man comes to God because of a divinely-given
inclination, not because of the fluent persuasiveness of any
silver tongued evangelist or even on account of the earnest
words of a humble Christian. Unfortunately, it is often the
humble Christian who realizes this, and not the silver tongued
evangelist.
Sometimes the often criticized youth is struck with the
unhappy feeling that if the rich young ruler were to walk into
a modern Conference Baptist church, he would not be turned
away—instead he'd be drinking coffee with the deacons, play-
(continued on page 3)
by Dr. Dalphy Fagerstrom
Professor of History and
College Librarian
Some years ago theologian Ber-nard
Ramm wrote in pessimistic
terms of the dilemma of the Chris-tian
college. It cannot be a quality
institution, he said, because aca-demic
quality requires a degree
and kind of freedom that evangel-ical
leaders are unable to permit
on the Christian college campus.
Ramm may be right, but he may
have limited his view to the col-lege
that is mainly concerned to
serve its constituency by conserv-ing
and preserving constituency
youth. A college can choose a wi-der
mission in the world of higher
education and society at large. Such
a mission can include denomina-tional
objectives. Denominational
exclusiveness can hardly include
the other.
The conserving and constituency
focussed emphasis, when it is ov-erwhelming,
places severe limits
on the educational climate because
it requires and produces an insti-tutional
conservatism. Only facul-ty
who seem the least likely ever
to give grounds for questioning
their orthodoxy in belief or beha-vior
can be employed.
Through subtle expressions of
approval and disapproval and more
directly through exhortation, re-minders
of constituency character-istics
and contract conditions, a de-gree
of repression presses on the
faculty. Sectarian and ethnic idi-osyncracies
must be maintained al-most
as fervently as orthodoxy in
belief. Inevitably an exaggerated
importance is placed on external
benchmarks of sectarian Christi-anity.
Administrators, faculty, and stu-dents
enveloped by institutional
conservatism are unlikely to devel-or
or demand a progressive pro-gram.
The screening process for
f a cult y undoubtedly militates
against selection of creative staff.
Conservatism is disrupted by cre-ativity
and the institutional atmos-,
here herefore does not welcome or
induce innovation, experiment, or
new departures.
Of course a constituency and col-is
taught from a religious perspec-tive.
They also point out that the
Christian college offers an envir-onment
where crucial intellectual
questions can be asked and an-swered
and where mistakes can
be made and tolerated. The Church-affiliated
college is seen as the
place to develop quality Christian
leadership and scholarship.
The critics of the church-related
college, while acknowledging that
a distinctively Christian interpre-tation
of philosophy and theology
is possible, claim that a distinctive
interpretation of history and the
social sciences is, at best, nebulous,
and a distinctive interpretation of
the natural sciences is a myth.
They also claim that developing
a consistent, comprehensive world
view that pervades the entire cur-riculum
is one step from brain-washing,
and the attempt to inte-grate
faith and knowledge often
cont'd on page 3
Conference reaction to letter of concern"
raises doubts about "the older generation"
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CAMPUS FORUM Christian community must resist
limits of institutional conservatism
Students accept social obligations
We should indeed be thankful
for the appropriate, honest, and
public expression made by the stu-dents
of Bethel Seminary upon the
tragic murder of a fellow Baptist
minister and American leader, Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is refreshing to know that we
have a group of future leaders who
are sensitive to the great crying
needs of modern society and who
are willing as Christian believers,
to confess before God and man our
sins of omission in extending God's
love and message to all our fellow
men.
Too often we Conference Bap-tists
divorce our social obligations
from our efforts at evangelism. We
are prone to relegate our tasks as
"good Samaritans" to a secondary
role totally apart from soul win-ning.
We forget that "letting our light
so shine before men that they may
see our good works and glorify our
Father in heaven" is "part and par-cel"
of successful soul-winning.
Fof too long most of us have sat
defensively on the sidelines fear-ing
that our Christian committment
might somehow be contaminated or
detoured by involvement in con-crete
social issues.
While we can praise God for the
"front lines" of ministry to the
non-white population that now ex-ist
in the Baptist General Confer-ence,
we ought also to ask His
forgiveness for the smallness of
this effort.
In most cases, we as individuals,
and local churches, have escaped
to the suburbs and abandoned our
efforts in the inner cities where
gospel institutions and outreach
are seemingly harder to sustain.
More important, we have failed to
eradicate the racial prejudice that
exists in our own "Christian"
hearts.
When a Christian neighbor shows
me his new revolver and announ-ces
"It's my nigger protection";
when the building lots for sale
in my neighborhood are taken off
the market immediately after a
Negro buyer appears; when an-other
neighbor moves and refuses
to sell his residence to a Negro;
and when a Negro in the enjoin-ing
suburb writes in the local
newspaper that he has encoun-tered
discrimination—not in hous-ing
or schools—but in the church-es,
then it's time I get involved
for social justice in my church
and in my neighborhood.
It is time to demonstrate the
absolute relevance and transform-ing
redemptive love of Jesus
Christ, in the cause of social jus-tice
and human relationships just
as Amos did in the Old Testament
account.
The largest number of churches
in Selma, Alabama, the segregation
symbol of the 1960's, are Baptist
in affiliation, fundamental-evangel-ical
in outlook, and conservative
in theology. It is more than like-ly
that the ironic tragedy of Selma
exists not just in Alabama but all
over America and in our own
hearts. May God forgive us.
Dwight Jessup
Instructor in Political
Science
from page 2
When a Christian faculty in a
Christian community teaches con-scientiously,
the student experience
is different from that in a secular
institution even in the unlikely
event of a lecture being repeated
word for word in the two places.
Communication is more than words.
In practice, any but the most
wooden-headed teacher adapts his
presentation to the characteristics
of his class and to the responses
in the class that he observes and
senses.
The fact of the Christian com-munity
immediately induces in the
sensitive teacher adaptations that
range from nuances in delivery to
selections of relevant data or prob-lems.
There may well be dogmatic
pronouncements of Christian truth
when in the instructors judgement
this is pedagogically sound.
But if the dogmatism is a defen-sive
act, it is a retreat to safety,
or if it is uncritical classroom evan-gelism,
it is pointless. The students
who accept it are safely dead in
the faith. The questing students
are repulsed.
A progressive program in Chris-ian
higher education requires ad-ministrative
cooperation and en-couragement
for the freedom of
the Christian scholar and teacher.
Certainly the faculty must be com-mitted
Christians, but excessive de-mands
for conformity in trivial,
technical or external matters vir-tually
eliminates the possibility of
a progressive minded and creative
staff. Progressive programs will
not result where conformity de-manding
administrators have de-veloped
a staff of conservers, how-ever
diligent they are.
Perhaps the conditions required
for a progressive mission in higher
education are not possible. Perhaps
the best we can work for in a
Christian college is the conserving
program that is academically sub-stantial
even as it trades on well
tried modes of curriculum, calen-dar
and pedagogy, and where
Christian truths are dutifully
plugged into the classroom.
Such colleges have an honorable
tradition. But if the second role
is only a dream, Bernard Ramm
is right and the future of Chris-tian
colleges is not exciting. Materialism obscures
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ing golf with the minister, soon be elected to the trustee board,
and the church would have a new carpet in the foyer.
And while the church slips another soul into its attendance
charts countless people the world over will continue living, or
more accurately, existing, under discrimination and poverty,
with no one to tell them about what God can do, and hardly
anyone to tell them what American churches are doing.
Perhaps in the masses of today's youth, there are a few
who realize that evangelism must be released from the pulpit.
If so, they may yet prove more valuable tools in the hands
of God than many of their predecessors have.
Maybe many of the adults who critically frown at the
younger generation are vitally concerned with world evangel-ism.
The sad part is that little Johnny somewhere out "there"
will probably never know about it unless some church sends
its bulletin to a young member working in the Peace Corps,
who, unfortunately, is overly concerned with peripheral issues.
Rather than blame young or old, perhaps everyone needs to
turn down the televisions enough so we can hear what God
is saying; maybe if we hear what he's saying, we'll even shut
them off. The handwriting is on the wall; we might even see
that if we move that big platter of turkey far enough. It is
ironical that only a man's heart can be as cold as an overflow-ing
deep freeze and as empty as a warm chimney.
It has been said that the best way to a man's heart is
through his stomach, but the cliche is even more universal
than that. An overdose of pumpkin pie is more likely to make
an American's heart burn than an account of social ills. Small
wonder that youth sometimes revolt in face of these attitudes.
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amounts to little more than class-room
evangelism.
Others see "The Christian world-view"
as implicitly stifling creativi-ty
and freedom of inquiry. The
ubiquitous eye of the constituency
and the feared cry of heresy pro-hibit
latitude in instructional tech-niques,
the appearance of "con-troversial"
thinkers on campus, and
the free expression of "controver-sial"
opinions.
Another significant argument
states that the Christian college
isolates the individual from the
rest of the world. Instead of pre-paring
the student to meet the
"real world," it merely prepares
him to serve in a local church
congregation.
Others point to the apathy ap-parent
at the sectarian college and
the "cloistered" mentality that it
attracts. They claim that it is not
training the better evangelical
youth. Many have a hard time re-conciling
the expenditure of time
by talented faculty members on
individuals that have no interest
in academic pursuits.
Another factor the critics cite is
the inability of the Christian col-lege
to solicit funds from its lim-ited
constituency. Insufficient
funds are often the reason for the
inability of the Christian college to
measure up to academic standards.
The critics also claim that the
truly dedicated Christian students
and teachers could be more effec-tive
on the university campus in
view of the many problems with
the sectarian college.
Still others point to the fact
that the sectarian college often
becomes a reformatory for the con-stituency's
misfits and a rest home
for the wealthy and that, as a
result, education becomes of sec-ondary
concern.
As yet the debate remains unre-solved.
The proponents of the
Christian college have not found
solutions to the many problems,
nor have its critics presented a
consistent and comprehensive al-ternative.
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Thursday, May 16, 1968
Thinclads dominate Bethel Invitational
Sophomore Dave Pound strains to break tape in 440-yard
dash. His time was just one-tenth of a second off his
own Bethel record.
High jumper Dave Pearson, school rec- Unidentified pole vaulter easily
ord holder, is on his way to another first bar in Saturday competition.
in Saturday's meet.
clears
Royals outdistance five competitors,
break 'century' mark with 104 points
The Royal cindermen completely
dominated the Bethel Invitational
last Saturday, scoring 104 1/2 points
with Albert Lea (56), Pillsbury (40),
Concordia (33 1/2), and Northland
(11) trailing far behind. After the
first four running events, the team
scores were closely bunched, but
the Royals swept the final six
track events to go along with an
excellent showing in field events,
and roll to an easy victory.
In the opening event, Lea's 440-
yd. relay team barely edged Beth-el
and its speedy anchorman Dave
Pound. Ron Berggren captured sec-ond
place for the Royals in the
mile with a time of 4:47. Pound
ran the 440-yd. dash in 51.1, just
one-tenth of a second off his school
record, and won easily.
The 100-yd. dash produced a
blanket finish, and Brick of North-land
was awarded the victory with
a clocking of 10.2. It was the last
victory for the opposition in the
track events.
Fritz Fredeen started the Bethel
sweep by running the 120-yd. high
Bethel swept two games from
Concordia of St. Paul last Satur-day,
10-0 and 12-2, on a combina-tion
of tough pitching and strong
hitting.
In the first game, senior Dan
Gross hurled a no-hit shutout,
striking out eleven batsmen. Gross
Freshman piching ace Low-ell
Richardson, one of Beth-el's
two no-hit pitchers.
hurdles in the record-tying time
of 15.4. Bill Malyon was second at
15.6. Jack Campbell, running the
half mile for the first time this
year, turned in an excellent 2:01.9,
and Bill Geigert followed close be-hind
in third place.
Fredeen and Malyon teamed up
again to finish one - two in the
330-yd. intermediate hurdles. Gei-gert
then won the two mile, fin-ishing
a mere six seconds off the
school record with his 10:03.6.
The mile relay provided an ex-citing
climax to the day. Joel Peter-son
and Rick Berggren had opened
up a 40 yard lead on second place
Lea, but Berggren and Campbell
were unable to exchange the ba-ton
within the proper exchange
area.
To avoid disqualification, Berg-gren
stopped short of the outer
line and Campbell returned to the
zone to grab the baton. Meanwhile
Lea had taken a narrow lead in
the race. Campbell overtook Lea,
and on the anchor lap Dave Pound
kept the ball low to stymie the
Concordia hitters, and become
Bethel's second no-hit pitcher in
the '68 season.
The Royals backed Gross' fine
effort with strong hitting support,
pushing across ten runs on eight
hits. Bethel made economical use
of their hits, bunching them in
three innings for all their runs.
The big inning for the Royals
was the second when they tallied
six times on five hits. Muck and
Sitte collected two hits apiece.
In the second contest, freshman
Lowell Richardson, Bethel's other
no-hit performer, scattered four
hits to beat Concordia 12-2 in a
game curtailed by rain at the end
of six innings.
The Royals started fast, scoring
three in the first and four in the
second, to jump out to a healthy
lead after the initial two innings.
A five run burst in the fifth put
the game on ice for the Bethel
nine.
The big blow for Bethel was
catcher Bill Englund's grand slam
home run in the second inning.
Englund cracked out two other
hits, while Richardson helped his
own cause with two base raps.
blazed away, leaving Lea 20 yards
behind at the finish.
Bethel scored heavily in all field
events. In the long jump, Tom
Rykert cleared 21' 3 3/4" (on his
final leap) to edge Tyrone Johnson
of Lea. Dave Pearson, Bob Olsen,
and Bill Malyon took third, fourth
and fifth for Bethel.
In the triple jump, Johnson
edged Malyon and Pearson with
his 40'8" effort. Pearson, however,
tied for first in the high jump
with Dobberstein of Concordia at
5' 10", and Fred Swedberg won
both the javelin, with a throw of
174 feet, and the shot put, with
42'2 1/4".
Jim Carlson and Malyon finished
third and fourth in the javelin, and
Swedberg was second in the dis-cus.
Wayne Carpenter and Jerry
Jenfa took second and fourth in
the pole vault.
Overall, it was the most impres-sive
showing of the campaign for
the track team. While the compe-tition
was not stiff, the Bethel
performers turned in excellent
marks. It was the last competitive
meet of the year, and most of the
squad will return next season.
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474e Xitrarcy
BETHEL COLLEGE
Bethelites listen to entertainment at Junior-Senior
banquet.
the CLARION
Vol e XLII—No. 26 Bethel College, St. Paul, Minn. Thursday, May 16, 1968
Festival choir presents Bach motet,
Vivaldi cantata tonight in fieldhouse
Bethel's CHOICE '68 vote follows
similar pattern to n•tional results
In action stemming from stu-dent
initiative, the Educational
Policies Committee approved in a
meeting last week, May 8, a one
credit course in The Negro in
American Culture for the fall se-mester
of 1968.
The course will be interdiscipli-nary.
It will be organized under
the supervision of the Dean who
will work with the academic corn-mittee
of the Student Senate in
enlisting participation from faculty
of various departments.
Student support was the key fac-tor
in the decision of the commit-tee
to approve the course. The
proposal had been discussed in
recent issues of the Clarion, and a
petition carrying the names of over
60 students interested in such a
course was submitted to the Edu-cational
Policies Committee.
Dr. Dalphy Fagerstrom, chairman
of the committee, said the action
The Bethel College community
will have an opportunity to hear,
live and in concert, Amanda and
John Ylvisaker on May 18 in the
Bethel fieldhouse. A Lutheran lay-man,
Ylvisaker attempts to mold
together the so-often conflicting
Musicians give
senior program
Joyce Miller and Dennis Rock-ford
will present their joint senior
recital at Elim Baptist Church in
Minneapolis, Monday night, M a y
20.
Joyce is a music education major
with her applied performance em-phasis
in voice. She will be per-forming
compositions by Buxte-hude,
Brahms, Massenet, and Han-del
as well as some contemporary
works by Wood, Murray, Perry and
Weaver.
Her accompanist is Karen Hale.
Also assisting her will be Harriet
Norgren and Gail Klemetti, flutists.
Dennis, also in music education,
will perform selections by Bach,
Beethoven, and Kabalevsky. Three
of his own hymn arrangements are
included in the program.
The recital begins at 8:00 p.m.,
and an informal reception will be
held afterwards.
"establishes a precedent" for add-ing
courses of an experimental na-ture,
dealing with current issues,
to the current curriculum at short
notice.
Dr. Fagerstrom said the commit-tee
viewed the course as "a learn-ing
experience for both students
and faculty." In participating in
this kind of experience, faculty
members may develop material
which they will then go back and
incorporate into their regular cour-ses
of instruction.
"This is viewed more as a one-time
shot than a long range pro-gram,"
Dr. Fagerstrom said, al-though
indicating that an evalua-tion
of The Negro in American
Culture course would be helpful
in determining the merit of con
tinuing the course, or of adding
similar short term courses relevent
to contemporary problems.
While the addition of such cours-worlds
of serious music and popu-lar
culture.
Sponsored by the Senior Class,
the concert will provide an unique
combination of the sacred and the
secular in musical form. Needless
to say, the Ylvisaker sound has
created some stir in the tradition-al
church, but it is an attempt to
give the institutional church a re-newed
awareness of its environ-ment
and its ability to communi-cate
with this environment.
A feature article in the Dallas
Morning News called their pro-gram
"the greatest." The Saginaw
News comments, "the Ylvisakers'
message, told in lyrics set to the
tunes of popular folk and rock mu-sic,
deals with the problem of life
in the city and of the beauty in
personal relationships. Nobody
sleeps through their sermons."
The feature writer of another
newspaper had this to say, "The
Ylvisakers' music is in direct con-trast
to our separationist hang-up.
A comfortable but unsettling union
of the secular and the sacred, it
uses contemporary sounds to pre-sent
religious motives. The result
is a strangely moving experience."
Controversial is the word for this
uncompromising attempt to reach
today's world with the Christian
faith, and sponsors hope it will stir
discussion. In Mr. Ylvisaker's
words: "Listen, react, and ask your-self
the question; is the church
finally ready for a musical revolu-tion?"
Senator Eugene J. McCarthy won
CHOICE '68 according to prelimi-nary
national results based on 1,-
207 schools. Richard Nixon re-ceived
the most votes from Bethel
while McCarthy ranked second
with 31.3% of the students voting.
Senator McCarthy topped nation-al
results with 285,898 first-place
votes. Senator Robert Kennedy
placed second with 213,832 votes.
Richard Nixon captured third place
with 197,167.
From the 1,207 schools that sub-mitted
results, 1,072,000 students
expressed presidential preferences
and opinions on key issues. Forty-four
percent of these students will
be of voting age in November.
es is good as a means of empha-sizing
important areas presently
slighted by the curriculum, Dr. Fa-gerstrom
felt that, pedagogically,
the material disucssed in this type
of course would best be absorbed
into existing courses.
The Festival Choir of Bethel Col-lege
will present Bach's Jesu,
Priceless Treasure and Vivaldi's
Gloria tonight at 8:30 in the field-house.
The 150 member choir and
a 20 piece orchestra composed of
professional musicians of the Twin
Cities with Frederick Sewell as
concert master will be under the
direction of Dr. Robert Berglund.
Jesu, Priceless Treasure, one of
J. S. Bach's most famous works,
is an acapella motet with instru-ments
doubling voice parts. Though
sung with an English translation,
the text is German. The title, Jesu,
Meine Freude literally means, "Je-sus,
My Joy," an emotion aptly
The Players Club of the Minne-sota
Theatre Company, in its sec-ond
year of operation, has an-nounced
a new and expanded pro-gram
for its 1968 Guthrie season.
The '68 program offers its mem-bers
three evenings of discussions
on theatre, a production at The
Other Place, plus a booklet of criti-cal
material on the Guthrie '68
plays and playwrights.
Membership in the Players Club
costs $2.00, and only subscribers to
the Guthrie '68 season may join.
The club is designed primarily for
students, but for the first time,
all subscribers are eligible.
The three evenings of discussion,
one more than in the past Players
Here is the distribution of Beth-el's
votes: Nixon received 39.4%;
McCarthy took 33.11%; Rockefel-ler
drew 7.95%; Hatfield picked
up 5.3%; Kennedy received 3.31%;
Percy drew 2.98% ; L.B.J. mustered
2.65%; Wallace and Lindsay each
picked up .99%; and Halstead,
King and Reagan each had .33%.
Stassen received no voted from
Bethel students. 2.32% of the Beth-el
vote went to write-in candidates.
The write-ins have not yet been
tabulated.
Rockefeller received the highest
number of second place votes in
Bethel's voting. He was followed
in this category by Nixon and
then McCarthy. Kennedy drew the
greatest - number of third place
votes. He was followed by Hatfield,
Rockefeller, Percy, and McCarthy,
in that order.
Sixty-five percent of Bethel stu-dents
favored either withdrawal
or reduction of American forces
in Vietnam. Permanent cessation
of the bombing was favored by
27.3%. Another 29.61% favored
portrayed by the grandeur of the
work.
Gloria by Antonio Vivaldi, is an
18th century Baroque cantata which
has been very popular in recent
times. This particular setting of
"Gloria in excelsis," of which there
are two, received its first modern
performance as late as 29 years
ago.
Since then, the great vitality
and rhythmic excitement of the
work has captured the hearts and
imaginations of performers and
listeners alike. It is scored for solo
voices, mixed chorus and orchestra,
including strings, oboe, continuo,
trumpet, and organ. Carol Stuart
Club season in St. Paul, will all
take place in the fall at The Other
Place Theatre. Topics for discus-sion
are: "Directing A Play," "De-signing
For The Theatre," and
"Theatre. In The 1970's."
Tentative speakers for these
events are director, TYRONE
GUTHRIE, world respected design-er,
TANYA MOISEIWIT'SCH, and
the Company's new Literary Man-ager,
JOHN LAHR, respectively.
The production at The Other Place
will be performed by members of
the Minnesota Theatre Company
in a play to be annouced later.
Membership is limited to 350,
and can be purchased at the Guth-rie
Box Office (377-2224).
temporary suspension of the bomb-ing.
Bethel students gave job train-ing
the highest priority for govern-ment
spending with 43.33%. Edu-cation
followed with 36.33%. Riot
control, housing, and income subsi-dy
all received limited support.
In the national results Senator
Eugene J. McCarthy led in ballot
metions with 623,360. Kennedy was
second, Rockefeller placed third,
and Nixon fourth. Humphrey re-ceived
about 60% of the write-in
vote.
On the issue of military action
in Vietnam, approximately 62%
favored some type of reduction. On
the bombing, 29% chose perma-nent
cessation and 29% favored
temporary suspension.
In connection with the urban
crisis, 40% recommended that ed-ucation
receive highest priority in
government spending. Job training
drew support from 39%. Riot con-trol
was favored by 12% of the
voters. Housing received 6% and
income subsidy picked up 3%.
and Margaret Berglund will per-form
the soprano and alto solos
respectively.
This year, the Festival Choir is
enjoying one of its best spring
rehearsal seasons. The stated goal
of the group is to establish its own
reputation as an outstanding group
on campus and in the Twin Cities,
capable of performing major ora-torios,
masses, and other full di-mensional
works.
The choir is governed by a new-ly
formed student council com-posed
of members from the Male
Chorus, Women's Choir, and Col-lege
Choir. This year's representa-tives
are Ruth Phillips, Cindy Sim-kins,
Tom Wilkinson,Jeff Loomis
and John P. Larson, with Dan
Wickman serving as chairman.
This council, plus the choir and
the members of the music faculty,
view the Festival Choir as the 'be-ginnings
of big, new, and exciting
musical experiences for the Bethel
community.'
ebetpet ,flotts
May 20-22
Monday: Dr. Dan Baumann
Tuesday: Honors Convocation
Wednesday: Dr. Max James will
present this summer's student
missionaries
The annual Honors Convocation
is scheduled for the regular Chapel
Service time on Tuesday. Over 185
student awards will be presented.
Lutheran layman slates concert,
combines sacred, secular music
EPC approves course addition
Guthrie announces expanded club
Dr. Fagerstrom
Faculty articles
discuss future
This week's issue of the Clarion
opens a discussion on the future
of the Christian liberal arts college
which will feature the contribu-tions
of several faculty members.
The discussion will be continued
in next week's issue, the final edi-tion
of the 1967-68 school year.
Dr. Dalphy Fagerstrom, profes-sor
of history and college librarian,
writes on this topic this week. His
article is printed below.
lege can rightfully choose a pro-gram
designed mainly to serve and
preserve its youth. Staff who com-mit
themselves to this work can
contribute joyously to it and take
satisfaction in a meaningful de-nominational
role. Their work is
with a select group in the critical
post-high school years and there-fore
is a strategic work.
But the rapidly diminishing role
of this kind of program in the
world of higher education should
be recognized. Such an institution
today may be in a position ana-lagous
to that of the Bible Insti-tute
a generation ago, soon to be
largely superceded by the course
of events.
There is another and more exci-ting
role for the Christian college.
It is in the strategic potential for
a progressive and high quality lib-eral
arts program under evangeli-cal
sponsorship and addressed to
society at large. Such a program
could truly be described as a mis-sion
in higher education. I doubt
that any college with a conserva-tive
theological orientation now
mounts such a program.
Some have adopted current fads
in calendar and credit structure
and make great (and 'specious)
claims for superior objectivity on
grounds that they are open to
study of religious assumptions
while secular institutions are not.
But the evidence of creative and
authentically academic programs
under evangelical sponsorship is
slim.
There are no doubt many rea-sons
for failure to develop progres-sive
missions in higher education,
but since teaching is central to the
whole enterprise, perhaps the cen-tral
problem relates to conserva-tive
anxieties and confusion about
teaching. There is confusion, for
example, about the objective of
"integrating faith and knowledge."
Most Christian educators profess
to want to (bring Christian truth
integrally into the disciplines they
study and teach, but few.describe
in practical terms how this is ac-complished
(i.e., beyond some gen-eral
assertions such as "Christ is
the source of all truth' or "there
is an ultimate unity in knowledge").
Some, in a search for safety, re-sort
to dogmatic pronouncements.
Some insist that the Christian col-lege
instructor must utter proposi-tions
he would not utter in a secu-lar
institution or that there is no
significant difference between the
two types of institution.
The fundamental issue, I suggest,
in the problem of integrating faith
and knowledge in college instruc-tion
is in techniques of communi-cation,
and in the educational in-stitution
this is a problem of peda-gogy.
Evangelically sponsored col-leges
generally do not admit the
wide lattitude in pedagogical ap-proaches
that must be permitted
and encouraged if a creative and
comprehensive learning experience
is to be possible.
Assuming that faculty have cho-sen
to live and work within the
theological framework of the spon-sors,
the instructors need not and
should not be exhorted to formu-late
Christian truth in the class-room
in any specific way. The in-structors
need only be encouraged
to teach as conscientious Christian
scholars.
cont'd on page 3
the CLARION
Published weekly during the academic
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periods, by the students of Bethel
college, St. Paul, Minn. 55101. Sub-scription
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Charlene Greene
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Opinions expressed in the CLARION do not
necessarily reflect the position of the college
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the CLARION Thursday, May 16, 1968
The "Open Letter of Concern," written by Bethel Semi-nary
students after Martin Luther King's assassination, has trig-gered
an avalanche of reaction, both pro and con, in Baptist
General Conference circles. Some have commended the semi-narians
for their concern while others have questioned the
practical value of a statement composed within the "ivory
towers" of the Arden Hills campus.
It would be most naive to assume that "the letter of
concern" is responsible for anything more than free expres-sion
of existing questions and suspicions. Conference members
have long looked at various trends among "the younger gen-eration"
with distrust.
First, they feel that today's youth are either apathetic
or otherwise championing peripheral issues (e.g., civil rights,
Viet Nam war) and have lost sight of their primary purpose
as Christians—evangelizing the world.
Secondly, they wonder whether seminaries and church-related
colleges, i.e. Bethel, are at fault for the comparative
failure of the church to evangelize the world.
These ideas are prevalent in the conference today. Pick up
the May 6 edition of the Standard. Listen to conversations
in conference churches. Again and again you find these senti-ments
expressed.
To many college students this is both irritating and
perplexing. First, they do not believe that Bethel students,
seminary or college, are victims of misdirected energies, and
intend to make social work their gospel, losing sight of their
greater task. Secondly, they wonder how the older generations
can talk of the "failure to evangelize the world," and then point
their fingers anywhere but at themselves.
Why had little advance been made toward world evan-gelism
in the 1920's? Many of the strongest critics of today's
youth were in full bloom then. Why was little progress made
in the 1930's? Why was little accomplished during the forties
or fifties?
These questions cannot be answered by pointing at the
younger generation. Nor can they be answered by pointing at
the shortcomings of seminaries or church-related colleges. Even
the conference adults who frown at them now never really
thought these colleges and seminaries were so bad when they
were attending them.
Undoubtedly, there are young people today who get carried
away to the point of thinking that fighting social or political
ills is the central work of the Christian. This is wrong. Yet
this is not worse than the large number of adults who evidence
little involvement in either the societal or spiritual realm.
We should not forget that Christ, according to the gospels,
performed a three-fold ministry on earth: teaching, preaching,
and healing. He was concerned for the total man, yet he put
material things in a perspective which conference TV's and 40
inch waists have never seen, despite their burning concern for
the souls of the lost.
Perhaps our concern for saving souls is a crutch we often
use to avoid the dirty work of societal involvement. But as
long as we use this as a crutch, we are really only concerned
about ourselves, and not others.
Perhaps we also need to re-examine the prevalent "easy
chair" conception of evangelism that seems to dangerously em-phasize
things that don't quite square with accurate biblical
exegesus. And here it is not the younger generation which
has the wrong priority of values.
First, the idea of the "invitation" seems to be right in the
adult's easy chair style: come to church, come to the altar, as
the evangelist begs, cajoles, or even threatens until the audi-
Critics, defenders clash on issue,
debatevalidityofsectarianschool
In recent years the idea of the
church-related or sectarian college
has come under severe attack, of-ten
from within the ranks of the
Christian community itself. While
there has been much controversy,
the issue remains wide open; the
sectarian college has not been com-pletely
vidicated by its defenders
nor has it been completely devas-tated
by its opponents.
The defenders of the idea claim
that at the intellectual level Chris-tianity
manifests itself in a dis-tinctive,
comprehensive world -
view that effects the interpreta-tion
of all aspects of knowledge.
They claim that the task of the
sectarian college is to develop this
world-view in every facet of the
curriculum and to "integrate faith
and knowledge."
The proponents of the idea also
claim that the Christian college is
the only place where the dedica-ted
student can be exposed to a
Christian interpretation of every
discipline, and where each course
ence responds. Christ taught in the synagogues, but he also
went out to the people to whom the "righteous" would not
lower themselves.
Christ was not the author of the emotional appeal, He did
not try to scare people into heaven, and the Bible does not
tell us about any cases where He used our modern type of
invitation when speaking to the masses. Modern invitations
are too often aimed at numbers, and even more often provide
a welcome chance for Christians to sidestep personal involve-ment.
It seems that Christ was more concerned about corn-mittment
than numbers. We need to follow this wise example
rather than devise "improvements" which ultimately reflect the
foolishness of man.
Those who claim to be so more firmly grounded in God's
Word than are the youth now corning from our colleges and
seminaries are blatantly guilty of ignoring another scriptural
truth each time they present a "persuasive" invitation. This
is simply that man comes to God because of a divinely-given
inclination, not because of the fluent persuasiveness of any
silver tongued evangelist or even on account of the earnest
words of a humble Christian. Unfortunately, it is often the
humble Christian who realizes this, and not the silver tongued
evangelist.
Sometimes the often criticized youth is struck with the
unhappy feeling that if the rich young ruler were to walk into
a modern Conference Baptist church, he would not be turned
away—instead he'd be drinking coffee with the deacons, play-
(continued on page 3)
by Dr. Dalphy Fagerstrom
Professor of History and
College Librarian
Some years ago theologian Ber-nard
Ramm wrote in pessimistic
terms of the dilemma of the Chris-tian
college. It cannot be a quality
institution, he said, because aca-demic
quality requires a degree
and kind of freedom that evangel-ical
leaders are unable to permit
on the Christian college campus.
Ramm may be right, but he may
have limited his view to the col-lege
that is mainly concerned to
serve its constituency by conserv-ing
and preserving constituency
youth. A college can choose a wi-der
mission in the world of higher
education and society at large. Such
a mission can include denomina-tional
objectives. Denominational
exclusiveness can hardly include
the other.
The conserving and constituency
focussed emphasis, when it is ov-erwhelming,
places severe limits
on the educational climate because
it requires and produces an insti-tutional
conservatism. Only facul-ty
who seem the least likely ever
to give grounds for questioning
their orthodoxy in belief or beha-vior
can be employed.
Through subtle expressions of
approval and disapproval and more
directly through exhortation, re-minders
of constituency character-istics
and contract conditions, a de-gree
of repression presses on the
faculty. Sectarian and ethnic idi-osyncracies
must be maintained al-most
as fervently as orthodoxy in
belief. Inevitably an exaggerated
importance is placed on external
benchmarks of sectarian Christi-anity.
Administrators, faculty, and stu-dents
enveloped by institutional
conservatism are unlikely to devel-or
or demand a progressive pro-gram.
The screening process for
f a cult y undoubtedly militates
against selection of creative staff.
Conservatism is disrupted by cre-ativity
and the institutional atmos-,
here herefore does not welcome or
induce innovation, experiment, or
new departures.
Of course a constituency and col-is
taught from a religious perspec-tive.
They also point out that the
Christian college offers an envir-onment
where crucial intellectual
questions can be asked and an-swered
and where mistakes can
be made and tolerated. The Church-affiliated
college is seen as the
place to develop quality Christian
leadership and scholarship.
The critics of the church-related
college, while acknowledging that
a distinctively Christian interpre-tation
of philosophy and theology
is possible, claim that a distinctive
interpretation of history and the
social sciences is, at best, nebulous,
and a distinctive interpretation of
the natural sciences is a myth.
They also claim that developing
a consistent, comprehensive world
view that pervades the entire cur-riculum
is one step from brain-washing,
and the attempt to inte-grate
faith and knowledge often
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CAMPUS FORUM Christian community must resist
limits of institutional conservatism
Students accept social obligations
We should indeed be thankful
for the appropriate, honest, and
public expression made by the stu-dents
of Bethel Seminary upon the
tragic murder of a fellow Baptist
minister and American leader, Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is refreshing to know that we
have a group of future leaders who
are sensitive to the great crying
needs of modern society and who
are willing as Christian believers,
to confess before God and man our
sins of omission in extending God's
love and message to all our fellow
men.
Too often we Conference Bap-tists
divorce our social obligations
from our efforts at evangelism. We
are prone to relegate our tasks as
"good Samaritans" to a secondary
role totally apart from soul win-ning.
We forget that "letting our light
so shine before men that they may
see our good works and glorify our
Father in heaven" is "part and par-cel"
of successful soul-winning.
Fof too long most of us have sat
defensively on the sidelines fear-ing
that our Christian committment
might somehow be contaminated or
detoured by involvement in con-crete
social issues.
While we can praise God for the
"front lines" of ministry to the
non-white population that now ex-ist
in the Baptist General Confer-ence,
we ought also to ask His
forgiveness for the smallness of
this effort.
In most cases, we as individuals,
and local churches, have escaped
to the suburbs and abandoned our
efforts in the inner cities where
gospel institutions and outreach
are seemingly harder to sustain.
More important, we have failed to
eradicate the racial prejudice that
exists in our own "Christian"
hearts.
When a Christian neighbor shows
me his new revolver and announ-ces
"It's my nigger protection";
when the building lots for sale
in my neighborhood are taken off
the market immediately after a
Negro buyer appears; when an-other
neighbor moves and refuses
to sell his residence to a Negro;
and when a Negro in the enjoin-ing
suburb writes in the local
newspaper that he has encoun-tered
discrimination—not in hous-ing
or schools—but in the church-es,
then it's time I get involved
for social justice in my church
and in my neighborhood.
It is time to demonstrate the
absolute relevance and transform-ing
redemptive love of Jesus
Christ, in the cause of social jus-tice
and human relationships just
as Amos did in the Old Testament
account.
The largest number of churches
in Selma, Alabama, the segregation
symbol of the 1960's, are Baptist
in affiliation, fundamental-evangel-ical
in outlook, and conservative
in theology. It is more than like-ly
that the ironic tragedy of Selma
exists not just in Alabama but all
over America and in our own
hearts. May God forgive us.
Dwight Jessup
Instructor in Political
Science
from page 2
When a Christian faculty in a
Christian community teaches con-scientiously,
the student experience
is different from that in a secular
institution even in the unlikely
event of a lecture being repeated
word for word in the two places.
Communication is more than words.
In practice, any but the most
wooden-headed teacher adapts his
presentation to the characteristics
of his class and to the responses
in the class that he observes and
senses.
The fact of the Christian com-munity
immediately induces in the
sensitive teacher adaptations that
range from nuances in delivery to
selections of relevant data or prob-lems.
There may well be dogmatic
pronouncements of Christian truth
when in the instructors judgement
this is pedagogically sound.
But if the dogmatism is a defen-sive
act, it is a retreat to safety,
or if it is uncritical classroom evan-gelism,
it is pointless. The students
who accept it are safely dead in
the faith. The questing students
are repulsed.
A progressive program in Chris-ian
higher education requires ad-ministrative
cooperation and en-couragement
for the freedom of
the Christian scholar and teacher.
Certainly the faculty must be com-mitted
Christians, but excessive de-mands
for conformity in trivial,
technical or external matters vir-tually
eliminates the possibility of
a progressive minded and creative
staff. Progressive programs will
not result where conformity de-manding
administrators have de-veloped
a staff of conservers, how-ever
diligent they are.
Perhaps the conditions required
for a progressive mission in higher
education are not possible. Perhaps
the best we can work for in a
Christian college is the conserving
program that is academically sub-stantial
even as it trades on well
tried modes of curriculum, calen-dar
and pedagogy, and where
Christian truths are dutifully
plugged into the classroom.
Such colleges have an honorable
tradition. But if the second role
is only a dream, Bernard Ramm
is right and the future of Chris-tian
colleges is not exciting. Materialism obscures
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ing golf with the minister, soon be elected to the trustee board,
and the church would have a new carpet in the foyer.
And while the church slips another soul into its attendance
charts countless people the world over will continue living, or
more accurately, existing, under discrimination and poverty,
with no one to tell them about what God can do, and hardly
anyone to tell them what American churches are doing.
Perhaps in the masses of today's youth, there are a few
who realize that evangelism must be released from the pulpit.
If so, they may yet prove more valuable tools in the hands
of God than many of their predecessors have.
Maybe many of the adults who critically frown at the
younger generation are vitally concerned with world evangel-ism.
The sad part is that little Johnny somewhere out "there"
will probably never know about it unless some church sends
its bulletin to a young member working in the Peace Corps,
who, unfortunately, is overly concerned with peripheral issues.
Rather than blame young or old, perhaps everyone needs to
turn down the televisions enough so we can hear what God
is saying; maybe if we hear what he's saying, we'll even shut
them off. The handwriting is on the wall; we might even see
that if we move that big platter of turkey far enough. It is
ironical that only a man's heart can be as cold as an overflow-ing
deep freeze and as empty as a warm chimney.
It has been said that the best way to a man's heart is
through his stomach, but the cliche is even more universal
than that. An overdose of pumpkin pie is more likely to make
an American's heart burn than an account of social ills. Small
wonder that youth sometimes revolt in face of these attitudes.
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amounts to little more than class-room
evangelism.
Others see "The Christian world-view"
as implicitly stifling creativi-ty
and freedom of inquiry. The
ubiquitous eye of the constituency
and the feared cry of heresy pro-hibit
latitude in instructional tech-niques,
the appearance of "con-troversial"
thinkers on campus, and
the free expression of "controver-sial"
opinions.
Another significant argument
states that the Christian college
isolates the individual from the
rest of the world. Instead of pre-paring
the student to meet the
"real world," it merely prepares
him to serve in a local church
congregation.
Others point to the apathy ap-parent
at the sectarian college and
the "cloistered" mentality that it
attracts. They claim that it is not
training the better evangelical
youth. Many have a hard time re-conciling
the expenditure of time
by talented faculty members on
individuals that have no interest
in academic pursuits.
Another factor the critics cite is
the inability of the Christian col-lege
to solicit funds from its lim-ited
constituency. Insufficient
funds are often the reason for the
inability of the Christian college to
measure up to academic standards.
The critics also claim that the
truly dedicated Christian students
and teachers could be more effec-tive
on the university campus in
view of the many problems with
the sectarian college.
Still others point to the fact
that the sectarian college often
becomes a reformatory for the con-stituency's
misfits and a rest home
for the wealthy and that, as a
result, education becomes of sec-ondary
concern.
As yet the debate remains unre-solved.
The proponents of the
Christian college have not found
solutions to the many problems,
nor have its critics presented a
consistent and comprehensive al-ternative.
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Thursday, May 16, 1968
Thinclads dominate Bethel Invitational
Sophomore Dave Pound strains to break tape in 440-yard
dash. His time was just one-tenth of a second off his
own Bethel record.
High jumper Dave Pearson, school rec- Unidentified pole vaulter easily
ord holder, is on his way to another first bar in Saturday competition.
in Saturday's meet.
clears
Royals outdistance five competitors,
break 'century' mark with 104 points
The Royal cindermen completely
dominated the Bethel Invitational
last Saturday, scoring 104 1/2 points
with Albert Lea (56), Pillsbury (40),
Concordia (33 1/2), and Northland
(11) trailing far behind. After the
first four running events, the team
scores were closely bunched, but
the Royals swept the final six
track events to go along with an
excellent showing in field events,
and roll to an easy victory.
In the opening event, Lea's 440-
yd. relay team barely edged Beth-el
and its speedy anchorman Dave
Pound. Ron Berggren captured sec-ond
place for the Royals in the
mile with a time of 4:47. Pound
ran the 440-yd. dash in 51.1, just
one-tenth of a second off his school
record, and won easily.
The 100-yd. dash produced a
blanket finish, and Brick of North-land
was awarded the victory with
a clocking of 10.2. It was the last
victory for the opposition in the
track events.
Fritz Fredeen started the Bethel
sweep by running the 120-yd. high
Bethel swept two games from
Concordia of St. Paul last Satur-day,
10-0 and 12-2, on a combina-tion
of tough pitching and strong
hitting.
In the first game, senior Dan
Gross hurled a no-hit shutout,
striking out eleven batsmen. Gross
Freshman piching ace Low-ell
Richardson, one of Beth-el's
two no-hit pitchers.
hurdles in the record-tying time
of 15.4. Bill Malyon was second at
15.6. Jack Campbell, running the
half mile for the first time this
year, turned in an excellent 2:01.9,
and Bill Geigert followed close be-hind
in third place.
Fredeen and Malyon teamed up
again to finish one - two in the
330-yd. intermediate hurdles. Gei-gert
then won the two mile, fin-ishing
a mere six seconds off the
school record with his 10:03.6.
The mile relay provided an ex-citing
climax to the day. Joel Peter-son
and Rick Berggren had opened
up a 40 yard lead on second place
Lea, but Berggren and Campbell
were unable to exchange the ba-ton
within the proper exchange
area.
To avoid disqualification, Berg-gren
stopped short of the outer
line and Campbell returned to the
zone to grab the baton. Meanwhile
Lea had taken a narrow lead in
the race. Campbell overtook Lea,
and on the anchor lap Dave Pound
kept the ball low to stymie the
Concordia hitters, and become
Bethel's second no-hit pitcher in
the '68 season.
The Royals backed Gross' fine
effort with strong hitting support,
pushing across ten runs on eight
hits. Bethel made economical use
of their hits, bunching them in
three innings for all their runs.
The big inning for the Royals
was the second when they tallied
six times on five hits. Muck and
Sitte collected two hits apiece.
In the second contest, freshman
Lowell Richardson, Bethel's other
no-hit performer, scattered four
hits to beat Concordia 12-2 in a
game curtailed by rain at the end
of six innings.
The Royals started fast, scoring
three in the first and four in the
second, to jump out to a healthy
lead after the initial two innings.
A five run burst in the fifth put
the game on ice for the Bethel
nine.
The big blow for Bethel was
catcher Bill Englund's grand slam
home run in the second inning.
Englund cracked out two other
hits, while Richardson helped his
own cause with two base raps.
blazed away, leaving Lea 20 yards
behind at the finish.
Bethel scored heavily in all field
events. In the long jump, Tom
Rykert cleared 21' 3 3/4" (on his
final leap) to edge Tyrone Johnson
of Lea. Dave Pearson, Bob Olsen,
and Bill Malyon took third, fourth
and fifth for Bethel.
In the triple jump, Johnson
edged Malyon and Pearson with
his 40'8" effort. Pearson, however,
tied for first in the high jump
with Dobberstein of Concordia at
5' 10", and Fred Swedberg won
both the javelin, with a throw of
174 feet, and the shot put, with
42'2 1/4".
Jim Carlson and Malyon finished
third and fourth in the javelin, and
Swedberg was second in the dis-cus.
Wayne Carpenter and Jerry
Jenfa took second and fourth in
the pole vault.
Overall, it was the most impres-sive
showing of the campaign for
the track team. While the compe-tition
was not stiff, the Bethel
performers turned in excellent
marks. It was the last competitive
meet of the year, and most of the
squad will return next season.
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